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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>DEUTERONOMY</span>
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CHAPTER 16
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Israel shall keep the passover; also, the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tabernacles—All males shall appear annually before the Lord at these three feasts—Judges shall not wrest judgment nor take gifts.
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Observe</span> the month of <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 13: 4.">Abib</a>, and keep the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/16/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 28: 16 (16-25); Luke 2: 41; John 13: 1 (1-3).">passover</a> unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God: for in the month of Abib the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
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Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 23: 21.">passover</a> unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/16/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Chr. 7: 12.">place</a> which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall choose to place his name there.
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Thou shalt eat no <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Leaven.">leavened</a> bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/16/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Bread, Unleavened.">unleavened</a> bread therewith, <i>even</i> the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/16/3c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ex. 12: 11.">haste</a>: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
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And there shall be no <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 13: 7.">leavened</a> bread seen with thee in all thy <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/16/4b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR territory.">coast</a> seven days; neither shall there <i>any thing</i> of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/16/4c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 25.">remain</a> all night until the morning.
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Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/5a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE cities, towns (also v. 11, 14, 18).">gates</a>, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee:
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But at the place which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 12: 42.">passover</a> at even, at the going down of the sun, at the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/16/6b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR time.">season</a> that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
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And thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/7a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB boil, cook.">roast</a> and eat <i>it</i> in the place which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
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Six days thou shalt eat <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Bread, Unleavened.">unleavened</a> bread: and on the seventh day <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> a <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/16/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Solemn Assembly.">solemn</a> assembly to the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God: thou shalt do no work <i>therein.</i>
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&#182; Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from <i>such time as</i> thou beginnest <i>to put</i> the sickle to the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/9a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB standing grain.">corn</a>.
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And thou shalt keep the feast of <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 23: 15 (15-21).">weeks</a> unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give <i>unto the</i> <i><span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God,</i> according as the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/16/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Cor. 16: 2.">blessed</a> thee:
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And thou shalt rejoice before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that <i>is</i> within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that <i>are</i> among you, in the place which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
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And thou shalt remember that thou wast a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/12a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR slave.">bondman</a> in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
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&#182; Thou shalt observe the feast of <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 23: 16; Lev. 23: 34.">tabernacles</a> seven days, <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/16/13b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB when you gather your grain.">after</a> that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
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And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that <i>are</i> within thy gates.
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Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God in the place which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall choose: because the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 23: 14 (14-17); 2 Chr. 8: 13 (12-13).">Three</a> times in a year shall all thy males <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/16/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 84: 7.">appear</a> before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/16/16c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ex. 23: 14 (1-17); Ezek. 46: 9.">feast</a> of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> empty:
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Every man <i>shall </i><sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mark 12: 42 (41-43); Mosiah 4: 24 (24-25)."><i>give</i></a> as he is able, according to the blessing of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God which he hath given thee.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Chr. 23: 4; Mosiah 29: 11 (11-25); D&C 58: 17 (14-20).">Judges</a> and <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/16/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 11: 16.">officers</a> shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
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Thou shalt not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/19a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR pervert justice, nor show partiality nor take a bribe.">wrest</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/16/19b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Judgment.">judgment</a>; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/16/19c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ex. 18: 21 (21-22).">gift</a>: for a gift doth <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/16/19d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Spiritual Blindness.">blind</a> the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
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That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/21a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB Thou shalt not plant thee an asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar (an asherah was a fertility idol made of a tree trunk); 1 Kgs. 14: 15; 2 Kgs. 17: 16 (15-16).">Thou</a> shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
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Neither shalt thou set thee up <i>any</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/16/22a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB pillar (for idol worship).">image</a>; which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hateth.
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